Reflection issues with Java 9

[akoehn]

Original report by Alexander Koller (Bitbucket: akoller, GitHub: akoller).

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Currently, Alto does not work with Java 9 because of the following reflection-related problems:

• org.simplericity.macify triggers an error "Illegal reflective access by org.simplericity.macify.eawt.DefaultApplication (file:/private/tmp/alto/target/alto-2.2-SNAPSHOT-jar-with-dependencies.jar) to method com.apple.eawt.Application.getApplication()". There does not seem to be a more recent version of macify that fixes this.
• Alto Lab doesn't find static methods in Program#getAllAnnotatedStaticMethods, probably because no classes are found in Program#getAllClassesIn_irtg_Classpath (but this needs to be double-checked).

Ideas for fixing these issues:

• Replace macify with something that does the same thing, but works with Java 9.
• Replace Alto Lab's class-finding mechanism with a class-finding mechanism like in InputCodec and OutputCodec, where the classes that can be used from Alto Lab tasks must be explicitly declared in a file.

[akoehn]

Original changes by Alexander Koller (Bitbucket: akoller, GitHub: akoller).

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changed content from "Currently, Alto does not work with Java 9 because of the following reflection-related problems:

• org.simplericity.macify triggers an error "Illegal reflective access by org.simplericity.macify.eawt.DefaultApplication (file:/private/tmp/alto/target/al" to "Currently, Alto does not work with Java 9 because of the following reflection-related problems:

• org.simplericity.macify triggers an error "Illegal reflective access by org.simplericity.macify.eawt.DefaultApplication (file:/private/tmp/alto/target/al"